Ursula Pia by Bernus

Ursula "Ulla" Pia Freiin von Bernus (* 1913 ; † 1998 ) was a German occultist . She was the daughter of the German writer and alchemist Alexander Freiherr von Bernus and his second wife, the Baltic artist Imogen von Glasenapp .

Life

Her godfather was Rudolf Steiner . She went to the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart - Uhlandshöhe . In her childhood she was acquainted with Klaus Mann , who in 1924 was her father's guest in Neuburg Abbey for a few weeks . In Mann's first autobiography Kind of this time she appears as a “stubborn and skinny little girl with a dogged grace and a shyly secretive intelligence”. In 1929 the parents separated and the father married a third time. In 1930 she was locked in an isolated dark room for three weeks.

She became known in the 1980s as a "black magician" through her involvement in a murder trial in which the defendants had stated that they had placed a killing curse on her, but then took action themselves when the effects of the curse were slow in coming . With a photo and name of someone to be killed, she allegedly carried out remote killings. During this time she lived in an apartment hotel in Bad Harzburg .

She became “Germany's best-known witch” after she claimed in a television program in 1984 that she could kill using magical practices and that she offered corresponding services for prices between 300 and 10,000 marks. Thereupon she was reported by the "television pastor" Adolf Sommerauer . The complaint did not lead to a trial, however, because the public prosecutor's office classified the activities of the "Witch Ulla" as an "unpunished crime ".

Before that there had been an affair in connection with the suicide of journalist Jürgen Gisselmann. Gisselmann was originally friends with von Bernus - they had met around the Fraternitas Saturni , and both had appeared under the religious names "Merlin" and "Anata" in a television program for the magazine Hörzu - but later they split up, be it because Gisselman had attacked Bernus' belief in UFOs , be it because he made occult competition with a "Club Belphegor". In any case, Gisselmann began to feel persecuted by black magic and committed suicide on October 2, 1979 at the age of 25. Gisselmann had worked for the German Playboy and the Bochum city ​​magazine Marabo . Werner Schmitz , a former colleague at Marabo , later wrote a key novel about these events.

She hit the headlines one last time posthumously when it became known that she had lived in Rotenburg an der Fulda in the immediate vicinity of Armin Meiwes , who had become known as the “cannibal of Rotenburg” , and had been friends with his mother.

She allegedly turned to an occult colored Christianity late in life.

Fonts

• Articles in Flensburg booklets. A conversation with anthroposophy . Flensburger-Hefte-Verlag, Flensburg 1985ff:
  • Book 13: Witches, New Age, Occultism. 2nd edition, Flensburg 1992, ISBN 978-3-926841-08-7
  • Book 33: Destructive Cults, Black Magic, Sexual Magic . Flensburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-926841-40-7

literature

• Wolfgang Weirauch: From Satan to Christ . Interview with Ulla von Bernus. In: Flensburger Hefte, special issue 12. Flensburg 1995, ISBN 3-926841-55-9 , pp. 6-27.
• Werner Schmitz: Come on, hell. Detective novel. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-88142-421-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rainer Schachner: In the shadow of the titans: Family and suicide in Klaus Mann's first autobiography “Child of this time”. Königshausen & Neumann, 2000, p. 227
2. ↑ "I kill when Satan commands it" by Alexander Niemetz, ZDF on September 17, 1984, 10:05 pm
3. ↑ With help . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1985, pp. 72-74 ( Online - Aug. 12, 1985 ).
4. ↑ Fraternitas Saturni - History and Protagonists - Article by Peter-Robert König (English)
5. ↑ “The Witch and the Cannibal” - Article in Spiegel Online from December 17, 2002
6. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/die-hexe-von-nebenan/373270.html
7. ↑ On the devil come out - epilogue to the Braille version and interview with Peter-Robert König